The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 72Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1785 - Books A monthly book announcement and review journal. Considered to be the first periodical in England to offer reviews. In each issue the longer reviews are in the front section followed by short reviews of lesser works. It featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. Griffiths himself, and likely his wife Isabella Griffiths, contributed review articles to the periodical. Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollet. |
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Page 53
... reason for a discovery , except to relieve the poet , who has at laft arrived at his fifth act . The truth is , that the action does not , like a good watch , proceed in regular time ; but is put backwards or forward , according to the ...
... reason for a discovery , except to relieve the poet , who has at laft arrived at his fifth act . The truth is , that the action does not , like a good watch , proceed in regular time ; but is put backwards or forward , according to the ...
Page 73
... reason why the dealers fhould treat their cuftomers worse in these refpects ( in respect of price and mixture ) now than heretofore . " I think there never was any reason why we should treat our customers ill in any degree ; and with ...
... reason why the dealers fhould treat their cuftomers worse in these refpects ( in respect of price and mixture ) now than heretofore . " I think there never was any reason why we should treat our customers ill in any degree ; and with ...
Page 208
... reason to fear a total defeat , lifted up his eyes to heaven , and put up this prayer : " God of Queen Clotilda , grant me the victory , and I vow to be baptized , and thenceforth to worship no other God but thee ! " He obtained the ...
... reason to fear a total defeat , lifted up his eyes to heaven , and put up this prayer : " God of Queen Clotilda , grant me the victory , and I vow to be baptized , and thenceforth to worship no other God but thee ! " He obtained the ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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